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@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ The goal is to develop `change` into a utility that can be dropped in front of a ## Filtering -Due to it's nature of interposing low level system calls such as `write` and `unlink` the library by default exposes lots of the internal write logic of the wrapped application. For instance it reports _vim_ creating a file called `4913` to verify the target directory's writability as well as the creation of various temporary backup files. While this is certainly interesting for debugging purposes it hinders the library's goal of providing a higher level summary consisting primarily of the actions the user explicity performed such as the changed file contents. +Due to it's nature of interposing low level calls such as `write` and `unlink` the library by default exposes lots of the internal write logic of the wrapped application. For instance it reports _vim_ creating a file called `4913` to verify the target directory's writability as well as the creation of various temporary backup files. While this is certainly interesting for debugging purposes it hinders the library's goal of providing a higher level summary consisting primarily of the actions the user explicity performed such as the changed file contents. To solve this problem one may provide a list of regular expressions to be matched against the file paths via the `CHANGE_LOG_IGNORE_PATTERN_PATH` environment variable. |